Civil rights attorney Roy L. Austin, Jr., who focused on policing in the Obama administration, first at the Justice Department and then at the White House, is Facebook’s new vice president of civil rights charged with helping the social media giant curb the racial hatred and violence on its platforms that over the summer led to a month-long boycott by civil rights groups and major advertisers.
Austin will establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook, one of the key recommendations of an internal audit of Facebook’s practices released in July which warned that Facebook’s failure to rein in toxic speech, racism and misinformation could have serious repercussions on the presidential election.
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